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Some films are so powerful that they can be painful to watch. The trailer for Painkiller is painful to watch.

Ex-undercover cop turned biker Rane (Fallon) witnesses the brutal murder of his pregnant wife Jaime (Jaeger) by his crew who have learned about his old policemen days. Shot through the head with a crossbow and dumped into a canal, Rane is believed to be dead…but he miraculously survives the ordeal. Upon his exit from the hospital, he teams up with his old crime buddy Kersey (Richards), arms himself to the teeth, and goes on a drug-fueled, psychotic rampage…all in the name of unapologetic retribution.

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This is embarrassing. I hadn’t realised that Paul Naschy was still going until I noticed that he’s playing Dr. Moreau in Ivan Cardoso’s Um Lobisomem na Amazônia.

Natasha is a 20-year-old woman who, together with four friends, decides to enter the Amazon forest to partake in a Saint Daime ceremony in one of the local villages. To guide them through the forest they hire the experienced Beto Careca. However, he’s not the one who turns up to get them, but Jean Pierre, a strange man who says he is Beto’s friend. They are not all convinced, but they all end up accepting his explanation. When night falls the group decides to set up camp in a place called Hell’s Opening. There they try the Saint Daime tea made by the guide himself and have a life-changing experience. Not everything is really a hallucination and not everyone will get out alive.

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Elio Quiroga’s La Hora Fría looks like it could be a very moody piece of work.

A group of eight people live isolated in crumbling installations. They cannot abandon the complex and they live in a constant state of vigilance. The food supplies are running out and they urgently need medicines and ammunitions, but in order to find them they must abandon the secure area. What lurks outside the small area they inhabit, however, is so menacing that they dare not even speak of it.

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Tony Jaa’s follow up to Ong Bak, Tom Yum Goong will be released in the US as The Protector on August 25th.

Kham grew up with elephants in Thailand. Elephants are majestic creatures, bred for peace, but prepared for war. When an evil Asian gang kidnapped the bull and the baby elephant during a festival and smuggled them to Sydney Australia, Kham must travel to a foreign land, and unravel a conspiracy that will reach into the highest strata of Australian law and business circles. With only his Muy Thai fighting techniques, and a disgraced Thai-descent police sergeant, he must reclaim his elephants, and his heritage… Against almost impossible odds…

The film is spectacular. Go see it.

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Stump the Band is the tale of four hot chicks in a punk rock band who, while on tour, get lost in the wilds of Wisconsin. There’s a guy out there with a very serious foot fetish. He likes to collect them like baseball cards. It’s a rock and roll horror adventure with a little bit of comedy mixed in.

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The website and a teaser trailer for Norwegian horror film, Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) has turned up online and it looks like impressive stuff with lots of striking scenery - and equally striking Norwegians - with a very dark edge.

The synopsis from the Norweigian Film Institute comes courtesy of Twitch:

It’s midwinter. Five youngsters are heading for the Jotunheimen mountain area to go snowboarding. On the slope, one of them has a bad fall and breaks a leg. There is no sign of any other people around, and their mobile phones are out of range. They catch sight of a mountain hotel in the distance, and decide to find shelter there. The hotel lies emtpy and silent, obviously closed down years ago. The phone lines are dead, and the youngsters realize they have to spend the night in the hotel. But it turns out they’re not alone. In the basement they discover a filthy dungeon of a room, where somebody has recently lived. They find a pile of polaroid photos, which by closer inspection prove to be very different from regular vacation photos… What follows is a battle of life and death, when Norway’s most notorious and determined serial killer plays cat and mouse with the youths. And while their number is diminishing, friendship and courage is put to the test in this roller¨coaster ride of a horror

Appropriately enough, Fritt Vilt is due to be released on Friday, October 13th.

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Todd at Twitch has posted a couple of trailers for Russian action/fantasy film, The Sword Bearer.

The film looks stunning and if anyone can point me in the direction of a synopsis I’d be most appreciative.

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Cindy Baer’s Morbid Curiosity is a 6-minute short that asks what would happen if our most sinister thoughts were realized.

The film recently premiered at the Los Angeles Dances With Films to an overwhelmingly positive response.

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Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. “The Black Dahlia”-an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public.

While Blanchard’s growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city’s most prominent families-who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim.

True crime meets urban legend when De Palma brings Ellroy’s “The Black Dahlia” to the big screen.

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If you live in the US and have never seen anything by Pedro Almodóvar, now is your chance. Sony Classics are running an 8 film retrospective in cinemas across the country starting in New York on Friday, August 11th.

Brand new prints have been made of all eight films - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, The Flower of My Secret, Live Flesh, Law of Desire, Matador and Bad Education - several of which have not been shown theatrically since their original release.

It all concludes with the US release of Volver on November 3rd. Visit Viva Pedro to find out more.

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